Friday, January 9, 2009

Imagine. Create. Innovate.

The European Year of Creativity and Innovation has the objective to raise awareness of importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development, to disseminate good practices, stimulate education and research, and promote policy debate and development.

The Year addresses a wide spectrum of related themes such as:

fostering artistic and other forms of creativity through pre-school, primary and secondary education including vocational streams, as well as non-formal and informal education

maintaining engagement with creative forms of self-expression throughout adult life

cultural diversity as a source of creativity and innovation

information and communication technologies as media for creative self-expression